Adjustable hinge



(No Modem J. K. PAGAN.

ADJUSTABLE HINGE.

No. 532,044. Patented Jan. 8, 1895.

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ll'siiTEn STATES PATENT @Eri-TEE,

JOHN K. PAGAN, OF VEST SUPERIOR, WISCONSIN ADJUSTABLE HlNGE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 532,044, dated January 8, 1895.

Application filed April 13, 1 893. Serial No. 470,155. (No model.)

To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN K. FAGAN, of Nest Superior, Douglas county, lVisconsin, have invented certain Improvements in Adjustable Door-Hinges, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in door hinges, its object being to provide a hinge, the members of which are laterally adjustable for doors of different thickness, or to different positions of the same to com pensate for the shrinkage of the door, and also to exert an elastic pressure upon the door to keep it tightly closed in its casing.

To this end my invention consists in forming one of the leaves of the hinge of three parts: iirst, a plate to be socketed in the casing; second, a plate connected to the hinge pintle and working in lateral slots in the iirst plate, the position of which is determined by screws passing through a lug upon the back of the first plate and threaded into a lug upon the second plate, a spring being interposed between the lugs, and third aface plate arranged on top of the others and rmly secured by screws to the casing. By the forward movement of the screw passing through the lugs on the back of the plates, the pintle of the hinge is carried outward, the lugs being drawn together against the tension of the spring, but with the reverse movement ol' the screw thespring carries the pintle inward. By this means the position of the pintle may be adjusted to secure a perfect lit of the door in the casing, the spring serving in addition to give an elastic pressure to the door.

My invention consists in the specific construction and combination hereinafter particularly described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings forming part of this specification, Figure 1 is a plan view of the hinge, the outside plate being partly broken away to show the adjustable features of the inner and intermediate plates.

Fig. 2 is a central cross section of the sanie and Fig. 8 is a section throughthe compound leaf or iiap taken on line :r2-:c of Fig. l.

In the drawings the hinge is shown made up of the iiap 2, adapted to be secured to the edge of the door and connected to the member A by means of the pintle 3 in the ordinary nianner. The meinberAis made up of the Hap 4 secured to the flap 2 by means of the pintle. This iiap is provided with the transverse slots 5 and the central rearwardly projectingr screw threaded lug 6. 7 is a plaie fitted to the socket in the casing and having end iianges S, between which the iiap iis fitted. It also is provided with hollow posts or bosses 9 which :it into the slots 5, and a rearwardly projecting lug 10 having an opening therethrough in alignment with the screw threaded opening in the lug 6, to receive the screw 1l, the other end of which is fitted to the lug 6, as shownin Fig. 2. Interposed between the lugs 6 and 10, is the spiral spring 12 which serves to keep theni separated to the lirnit permitted by the screw.

13 is a cap fitted over the iiap 4: and plate 7, and secured in place by means of wood screws passing through the holes 1i. Other screws 15 are passed through openings in the plate 13 and through the hollow post 9, further securing the hinge in place. The plate 13 is secured to the plate7 by means ofthe inachine screws 1G passed through openings in the plate 13, and threaded intothe plate as shown in Fig. 3. The hinge is tted to the door casing so that the head 17 of the screw 11 is exposed behind the hinge. iVhen the screw is turned forward, the lug 6 is drawn toward the lug 10 against the tension of the spring 12, and the pintle is carried outward from the casing. With the reverse movement of the Screw the tension of the spring carries the lug 6 inward,and with itthepintle. The hinge is adapted specially for use upon my improved beveled edge doors fitted to similarly beveled door casings. The position of the pintle of the hinge is adjusted by means of the screw 11, so that the door when first hung will lit closely to the casing, the springs 2 yielding to allow the pintle of the hinge to be thrust outward as much as may be necessary to adapt the door to the casing. As the door shrinks away, the springs will notwithstanding, tightly hold it close against the casing to the limit offered by the position of the screws 11. Upon further shrinkage of the doorthe screws 11 may be loosened to allow the springs to carry the door still farther inward. It will thus be seen that a consider- ICO able range of adjustment is possible to keep the door at all times fitted to its casing.

I claim- 1. Inahinge, the laterally expansible member in combination with spring restrained means for adjustably fixing the degree of eX- pansion.

2. In a hinge, the compound fiap comprising in combination the socket plate, the faceL plate, the slidable intermediate plate connected to the other member of the hinge lthe contracting spring, and the adjustable step, substantially as described.

3. In a hinge, the expansible compound member, comprisingin combination, the part to be socketed into the support, the part slid- JOHN K. FAGAN.

Witnesses:

T. D. MERWIN, H. S. JOHNSON. 

